October 30th, 2020
Across the street from UD’s house…

… a witch, a table with candy, and the abominable snowman.

Out of focus. Sorry.
October 30th, 2020
Henry Purcell, in Early Evening Sunlight…

… in autumn.

October 18th, 2020
La Kid; Autumn.
October 14th, 2020
At 2:40 AM, UD walked onto her deck (cold; cricket chorus), and there they were!

Somewhat hidden behind her forest, but gleaming gamely, were the paired new moon and Venus — Venus brilliantly bright, and the moon elegantly thin on the horizon. A remarkably clear night for Garrett Park, which, if you’re standing in our forest, feels rural (especially with all those lonesome train whistles), but is in fact urban (part of Bethesda; close to DC).

UD is on her way, today, to Cherry Springs State Park, where she’s hoping to get some clear weather and much much more remarkable skies.

October 6th, 2020
WAY creepy praying mantis…

… followed me with its bulbous eyes as I moved
around photographing it.
October 2nd, 2020
Smoke, Vines, Fungi: UD’s Forest on a Sunny Morning after a Rainy Night.
September 27th, 2020
A praying mantis spent…
… hours on my window sill today, gobbling insects galore.
September 21st, 2020
La Kid Turns Thirty.
September 8th, 2020
Habemus Chrysalis!
Can’t seem to get a good picture of it. See it hanging off the blade of grass? Me way excited. It will be easy to follow the metamorphosis into butterfly – if the thing doesn’t fall or or get picked off or whatever.
Wow!
September 3rd, 2020
More garden excitement as a box turtle glances anxiously at UD.
UD figures the turtle is on her way to UD‘s massive monarch butterfly caterpillar colony. Oh well.

September 3rd, 2020
A Garden Crowded With Incident.

September 1st, 2020
UD V Excited!

Woke this morning to monarch butterfly caterpillars all over my milkweed.

Don’t wanna crop this, cuz want you to see them all.

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UPDATE: There’s got to be a morning after…. There’s frass everywhere.

August 30th, 2020
From the New York Avenue Animal Shelter…
… to this. UD‘s dog stretches out in the back garden.

August 27th, 2020
The Rapoports, Cherkassy, Kiev Gubernia, ca. 1900.
UD’s grandfather, Joseph Rapoport, about ten years old, stands behind his proud bearded father.
August 27th, 2020
Snapshots from Home

“To be perfectly frank, I feel like a lot of our clientele is fairly insulated from the current situation. I don’t think anything would change in terms of how they’re buying or collecting wine.”

Yep, life round these parts is jest bout the same, thanks for asking.

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